Magdeburg (dpa/sa) – Saxony-Anhalt’s teachers are expected to stand in front of the classes for one hour longer per week from mid-March. The cabinet decided on Tuesday that there should be a working time account in the future, on which the more hours worked can be accumulated, said Education Minister Eva Feußner (CDU) on Tuesday in Magdeburg. In the next step, the associations should be consulted. After further consideration by the cabinet, the new regulation could come into force in March, the minister said.
According to Feußner, teachers should work one hour more per week for the next five years. Excluded are around 2000 teachers over the age of 62 and disabled people with a degree of 50 percent or more. Temporary teachers are also not recorded.
Anyone who is obliged to the so-called advance hour should be able to accumulate up to 1000 hours on the working time account. From the 2032/33 school year, it should be possible to reduce the hours in the form of a sabbatical or earlier retirement. Feußner says the teacher shortage is expected to ease in the 2030s. With the additional hour before the class per teacher, the country can generate a volume of about 500 full-time teaching positions.
